Staff: Mentor

As a more short-term detection method, you produce two high-energetic hydrogen nuclei, maybe together with a photon. They can be detected with conventional particle detectors (scintillators, for example).

Why is this? There are no strong magnetic fields or ionizing radiation present to cause the gas in the detector (e.g geiger tube) to ionise. Is it because the tritium and hydrogen have high kinetic energies (0.764 MeV) so they can "bump" into electrons of the atoms in the gas and knock them from their shell?